Best Friend Trouble

By Frances Itani and Geneviève Després

Hanna is fed up with her best friend, Lizzy, who is always trying to be better than her. When Lizzy tells Hanna she can throw her ball farther and succeeds, it's the last straw. Hanna is tired of feeling second best, but what she doesn't realize is that sometimes she makes Lizzy feel that way too. Maybe there's a way they can still be best friends after all. A funny and relatable story about best friends, competition and learning to see things from another's point of view.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Apr 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781459807143

Frances Itani

FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.

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Reviews for Best Friend Trouble

[melodyreads · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

longer story about friendship and trouble with a particular friend

[sullywriter_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fun, relatable friendship story.